Health integration · NZ & Australia
Many systems.
One path forward.
Basal is a specialist health integration consultancy. Five years building national-scale clinical infrastructure across New Zealand and Australia — disease surveillance pipelines, hospital system transitions, cross-agency data sharing, and HL7/FHIR architecture for government health agencies.
Principal-grade, delivered directly
Technical depth and governance fluency, in the same seat.
Architecture
End-to-end design of clinical integrations — HL7 v2.x and FHIR, middleware, queue and event contracts, cloud topology, and the security artefacts that make it real.
Delivery
Production Python and middleware. Libraries and pipelines written to be owned by the in-house team long after the engagement ends.
Strategy
Options papers, target operating models, and executive briefing that turn technical complexity into actionable investment decisions.
Selected work
Cabinet-mandated programmes. Shipped.
Hospital IT transition
Chair of the Architecture and Applications working groups for a major private-to-public hospital handover — 130+ applications, Day-1 business continuity.
Read more Tri-agency surveillance programme · NZ · 2025National disease surveillance ecosystem
Principal architect on a tri-agency cloud-warehouse migration. 20+ years of case history, live in a 2025 production release.
Read more Crown Research Institute · NZ · 2021–2025Health security & surveillance
National case-event middleware, NZ's first fully automated STI surveillance pipeline, point-of-care troponin integration, and a national surveillance cloud migration.
Read moreClients
Engagements with tier-1 public health agencies, Crown Research Institutes, and central-government departments across New Zealand and Australia.
Client names withheld by default. References available on request under appropriate engagement terms.
Engagements
Small in number.
Principal-grade.
Basal takes on a small number of engagements at a time. All work is delivered directly by the principal — no layers, no hand-off.